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Saturday, December 8, 2012

The Post for People Who Like Short Posts

Hello all!

First up - my Aunt Ellen just sent this classic photo of me standing up in her wedding (a follow up to the Chicago Parent story on my love of cake). I had THE look of the era - a 1978 Dorothy Hamill haircut.

Everyone thought I was a boy.

Second - thank you to the fabulous blogger Mama Melch for asking her daughter Annika to "review" the new book! I'm trying not to take her comments too personally, given that I apparently rate somewhere between Dora and Caillou. Check out her comments at Midwestern Berliners.

Alright. Best get back to enforcing a marathon piano practice session before the big recital. Stay tuned!

29 comments:

Oh, man! My sister always told me I should get the Dorothy Hammil cut when I was a kid. Never mind that I have naturally curly hair and this was WAY before flat irons were invented. Funny, because at the time, I had long hair. I was going for the Jan Brady look, also impossible with curly hair.

Too cute with the picture!! So neat you shared it with us too!! WTG on the review!!!

(I might do an entry on the rum cake when we make it for Christmas in a few weeks; it really is delicious. Friends of ours made rum cakes for friends at Christmastime when we lived in Montana. They were always coveted to get and once you were on the list, you were never off the list unless you moved or died. We moved. She shared the recipe with us after we moved saying not to share it with anyone else, but I'm thnking after six years since we moved and no one from Montana follows my blog, I might just share it come Christmas....its easy to make too!)

Aww - the haircut was so stylish at that time, though. I have VERY curly hair and my mother chopped it all off when I was in the 1st grade because she was sick of having to brush it out all the time. Until I grew it back in 7th or 8th grade - everyone thought I was a boy, too.

I always wanted long, braided hair, like Laura Ingalls. Instead, my mom insisted on a short, not-quite Dorothy Hamill style because, it seems, I wasn't good at taking care of my hair when I was 7. Sigh. If I could do it all over, I swear, I would brush my hair every day!

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